A Desert Research Institute scientist visits a cloud seeding station near Lake Tahoe. (Provided by DRI)

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The claim: Cloud seeding in the Sierra Nevada causes less precipitation in central and eastern Nevada.

The background: A Reno Gazette-Journal story looked at warmer temperatures due to climate change possibly leading to cuts in cattle grazing on public lands.

This prompted reader Sue Cauhape to write in. She mentioned a conversation she and her husband had with a “young rancher” near Ely.

“We talked of drought and climate change in the ranch lands of Nevada and he mentioned that ever since cloud seeding started in the Sierra Nevada, precipitation has fallen there instead of moving eastward to central Nevada...."